One of Park City’s most recognizable trail gurus has resigned from her post as executive director of Mountain Trails Foundation. But Carol Potter and her two pugs will still use the trail system on the West Side of Summit County.

“I’m old and I’m tired,” Potter said.

She said she stepped down as executive director because overseeing Mountain Trails was taking too much of her time. Potter said she will still be paid to write grants and promote fund-raising events for the organization.

As the group’s executive director, Potter acted as a link between the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District, City Hall and Utah State Parks, according to Mountain Trails Foundation President Greg Balch.

“[Potter] has been with Mountain Trails since 2004, and has been an instrumental part of our success in promoting and maintaining the great trail system we have here in Park City,” Balch said in a prepared statement.

According to Potter, “I’m in a wonderful spot.”

“It is not very often that you resign and then it turns around and ends up happy,” Potter said. “I love the trails and I want to be the one telling people about the trails.”

In her new position she will attend fewer meetings and work less with government officials, Potter said.

“I’m definitely going to be involved in trails,” Potter said. “And I’ll be involved in more grant writing to pay for more trails.”

Bonnie Park, a spokeswoman for the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District, said she has worked closely with Potter for six years.

“There are just a lot of things that we have done together as organizations, and the success of some of the things that we have been able to do is a direct result of having good people to work with,” Park said. “We have tried very hard to make it one trail system using two different taxing entities, Park City and the Basin, and Mountain Trails is kind of the one that brings it all together as the nonprofit.”

The work organizations in the Park City area have done to create a “seamless trail community” makes her proud, Potter said.

“You don’t know if you’re on a Park City trail or a Basin Recreation trail,” Potter said. “It’s just cool to think that we are all working together. That’s really been fun.”